I have no fear of death, but I am mortal fear of losing my mind and memory. The idea of being trapped in the body of an unknown, lost in thought and time drift is more that I can support. Friends have laughed my fear, they have responded with simplistic comments: "at least you don't know that it is in that condition." You would be so far has been the loss of memory does not know that his body is deteriorating. If you do not have knowledge of the nightmare, how can you be suffering? "No more true." However, I am concerned by such simplistic assumptions. The question still bothers me: what is there any way unconscious or unconscious body can tell your car out of place? Can someone with dementia or Alzheimer's have an unconscious or subconscious knowledge that his memory, identity and sense of self has been lost in the confusion?
So far, I have not found in my readings of a single suggestion that this possibility exists. There are a lot of literature on the unconscious memory or procedure that does not seem to have no relation at all with an explicit sense of self. We have a vast reserve of unconscious memories. our engine - get up, go to the bathroom, walking, sleeping body functions - are possible thanks to the unconscious memory or procedure - memory of the procedures and actions that we must make ourselves suffer as living organisms. Does not have to remember to breathe since breathing is an unconscious process embedded in our cells. In this sense, there is no possible memory with the unconscious memory loss unless the area of the brain that controls a specific action is damaged.
In a very real sense, are possible thanks to the procedural memory. There are activities that we do all the days that do not require reflection. Driving a car is a good example of the procedural memory implicit. This action is so ingrained in our cells that own driving becomes automatic. These reports have been sand jet in our limbic system. For this reason, we don't forget how riding a bicycle, even if there are over forty years between our ride bike last and now.
Do you have unconscious procedural memory aware of itself? Daniel Schacter, University of Arizona was suffering 58-year-old man Alzheimer's disease to the golf course. The man still could hold his club correctly, t-shirts in the correct site and hit very well. These procedures have not abandoned his memory. However, no agreed that had been shot and began to gather with you several times. Unable to fully account. At night, their loss of memory was so acute that you could not even remember the events of the evening and even denied having played the game that day. His sense of a car is intact with the passage of the day is non-existent. ("Spirit of the memory of" Hilts, 183)
One thing we do know - no memory of the events, there is an I. We could not know who we were, who we are or we want to be. Filmmaker Luis Brunuel once wrote: "[without memory] [, we are nothing...]" "we can only hope that the final amnesia, which you can delete a lifetime, as did my mother."
We also know what this sense of self is transient - changes with our memory already regret the feeling that there is something vital and geological on memories, are indelible, but fade and change over time. And in the same way, our later sense of flicker himself in and out of focus.
What all this means is that our sense of identity, sense of itself is more a work of fiction that truth. It is not intended to be robust, cornerstone more as the sand at the bottom of the sea, recompuesta repeatedly changing tides and currents. We experience our brain alter in any way. A Word, an event changes the brain circuits. These are the physical changes that make that the idea of a fixed very slippery car.
If the memories, recalling change is not a fact of life Vault recovery, remember to recreate, re - writing the past in terms of the present. Wordsworth defines poetry as a "time recalled in time", and in doing so, present an inexorable part of the past. A reminder of it is an attempt to make sense of the past in the light of the present, or an attempt to make sense of the current in the light of the past. There can be no memory without at least a breath of it at present. In total and explicit deletion events, time and place, Alzheimer's memory loss removes all traces of its own.
And so my question is buried at least for now. I mix up to an advanced age, dementia and oblivion, have no fear the agony experienced by the unfortunate victims of Bell's palsy "-a lucid mind body trapped in failing, conscious all the way until the end of your current and previous self."? No, unfortunately these poor victims without grace here for salvadora - memory loss as.
